Ausgabe 4/2022
Inhalt (90 Artikel)
A quick glance at selected topics in this issue
- Review Article
Pradeep Bhambhvani, Fadi G. Hage, Ami E. Iskandrian
Cardiovascular disease in the literature: a selection of recent original research papers
- Review of the Literature
Wael A. AlJaroudi, Fadi G. Hage
Nuclear cardiology in the literature: A selection of recent, original research papers
- Review of the Literature
Richard L. Weinberg, Saurabh Malhotra
JNC awards
- News
What makes for a great editorial? The Ken Brown JNC Editorial Award
- News
Randall C. Thompson, Andrew J. Einstein, Sharmila Dorbala, Ami E. Iskandrian
What is this image? 2022 image 1 result: radiologic improvement of transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis after treatment with tafamidis
- WHAT IS THIS IMAGE?
Raktham Mekritthikrai, Javier Gomez-Valencia, Saurabh Malhotra
What is This Image? 2022: Image 2
- WHAT IS THIS IMAGE?
Multimodality imaging to distinguish between benign and malignant cardiac masses
- Original Article
Ayaz Aghayev, Michael K. Cheezum, Michael L. Steigner, Negareh Mousavi, Robert Padera, Ana Barac, Raymond Y. Kwong, Marcelo F. Di Carli, Ron Blankstein
Longitudinal evaluation of diastolic dyssynchrony by SPECT gated myocardial perfusion imaging early after acute myocardial infarction and the relationship with left ventricular remodeling progression in a swine model
- ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Feifei Zhang, Jianfeng Wang, Xiaoliang Shao, Min Xu, Yongjun Chen, Shengdeng Fan, Yunmei Shi, Bao Liu, Wenji Yu, Xiaoxia Li, Mei Xu, Minfu Yang, Xiaoying Xi, Zhifang Wu, Sijin Li, Yuetao Wang
Diastolic dyssynchrony by SPECT: A novel parameter to predict post-infarct adverse remodeling
- EDITORIAL
Pieter van der Bijl, Victoria Delgado, Jeroen J. Bax
Incremental value of left ventricular shape parameters measured by gated SPECT MPI in predicting the super-response to CRT
- ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Zhuo He, Fernando de Amorim Fernandes, Erivelton Alessandro do Nascimento, Ernest V. Garcia, Claudio T. Mesquita, Weihua Zhou
Gated SPECT left ventricular shape and prediction of super responders to cardiac resynchronization therapy: Not so easy as it (LV) looks
- EDITORIAL
Mahmoud Altawil, Joshua Greenberg, Karthik Ananthasubramaniam
Effect of proton pump inhibitors and H2 antagonists on gastric wall uptake in myocardial perfusion scan with 99mTc-sestamibi
- ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Ghazal Norouzi, Azin AsadZade, Yazdan Salimi, Sepide Khoshbakht, Elahe Pirayesh
Pattern of arterial inflammation and inflammatory markers in people living with HIV compared with uninfected people
- Open Access
- ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Nevio Taglieri, Rachele Bonfiglioli, Isabella Bon, Pietro Malosso, Andrej Corovic, Matteo Bruno, Elizabeth Le, Bianca Granozzi, Tullio Palmerini, Gabriele Ghetti, Martina Tamburello, Antonio Giulio Bruno, Francesco Saia, Jason M. Tarkin, James H. F. Rudd, Leonardo Calza, Stefano Fanti, Maria Carla Re, Nazzareno Galié
Investigating vascular diseases in people living with HIV by nuclear imaging
- Editorial
Phillip Chan, Serena Spudich
Incremental value of epicardial fat volume to coronary artery calcium score and traditional risk factors for predicting myocardial ischemia in patients with suspected coronary artery disease
- Original Article
Wenji Yu, Feifei Zhang, Bao Liu, Jianfeng Wang, Xiaoliang Shao, Min-Fu Yang, Xiaoyu Yang, Zhifang Wu, Sijin Li, Yunmei Shi, Bing Wang, Yiduo Xu, Yuetao Wang
Coronary artery calcium or epicardial fat: Different markers for different people
- Editorial
Nataliya Pyslar, Rami Doukky
The prevalence of image degradation due to motion in rest-stress rubidium-82 imaging on a SiPM PET-CT system
- Original Article
Ian S. Armstrong, Matthew J. Memmott, Charles Hayden, Parthiban Arumugam
Moving forward with motion reduction, detection and correction in cardiac PET
- Editorial
Ernest V. Garcia, Jonathon A. Nye
Improved risk-stratification in heart failure patients with mid-range to severe abnormalities of QRS duration and systolic function using mechanical dyssynchrony assessed by myocardial perfusion-gated SPECT
- ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Takahiro Doi, Tomoaki Nakata, Takahiro Noto, Tomohiro Mita, Satoshi Yuda, Akiyoshi Hashimoto
Three-dimensional left ventricular mechanical dyssynchrony assessed by myocardial perfusion gated-SPECT: Is there a role in cardiac resynchronization therapy?
- Editorial
Cinzia Valzania, Riccardo Mei, Mauro Biffi
Left ventricular mechanical dyssynchrony in patients with heart failure: What is the next step?
- Editorial
Feifei Zhang, Yuetao Wang
Left ventricular mass on positron emission tomography: Validation against cardiovascular magnetic resonance
- Original Article
Maan Malahfji, Ahmed Ibrahim Ahmed, Yushui Han, Aaron K. Jung, Talal Alnabelsi, Faisal Nabi, Dipan J. Shah, Ahmed Aljizeeri, Alexis Poitrasson-Rivière, Edward Ficaro, John J. Mahmarian, Mouaz H. Al-Mallah
Comparison of Cadmium Zinc Telluride ECG-gated SPECT equilibrium radionuclide angiocardiography to magnetic resonance imaging to measure right ventricular volumes and ejection fraction in patients with cardiomyopathy
- Original Article
Antoine Apert, Marjorie Canu, Adrien Jankowski, Laurent Riou, Alexis Broisat, Clemence Charlon, Caroline Augier, Aude Boignard, Julien Leenhardt, Muriel Salvat, Charlotte Casset, Marion Maurin, Carole Saunier, Gerald Vanzetto, Daniel Fagret, Catherine Ghezzi, Loic Djaileb, Gilles Barone-Rochette
Scan-rescan measurement repeatability of 18F-FDG PET/MR imaging of vascular inflammation
- Original Article
Philip M. Robson, Audrey Kaufman, Alison Pruzan, Marc R. Dweck, Maria-Giovanna Trivieri, Ronan Abgral, Nicolas A. Karakatsanis, Patrick M. Brunner, Emma Guttman, Zahi A. Fayad, Venkatesh Mani
Myocardial blood flows and reserves on solid state camera: Correlations with coronary history and cardiovascular risk factors
- Review Article
Paul Ferenczi, Thierry Couffinhal, Adel Mamou, Yassine Mamou, Quentin Ceyrat, Laurence Bordenave, Pierre Coste, Jean-Baptiste Pinaquy
Diagnostic accuracy of dynamic CZT-SPECT in coronary artery disease. A systematic review and meta-analysis
- Open Access
- Review Article
Mariska Panjer, Magdalena Dobrolinska, Nils R. L. Wagenaar, Riemer H. J. A. Slart
Dynamic CZT-SPECT in coronary artery disease: Where are we now?
- Editorial
Valeria Cantoni, Roberta Green, Adriana D’Antonio, Alberto Cuocolo
[18F]FDG and [18F]NaF as PET markers of systemic atherosclerosis progression: A longitudinal descriptive imaging study in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus
- Open Access
- Brief Report
M. Reijrink, S. A. de Boer, C. A. te Velde-Keyzer, J. K. E. Sluiter, R. A. Pol, H. J. L. Heerspink, M. J. W. Greuter, J. L. Hillebrands, D. J. Mulder, R. H. J. A. Slart
18F-fluorodeoxyglucose and 18F-sodium fluoride for imaging atherosclerotic plaque activity
- Editorial
Jacek Kwiecinski
Longitudinal analysis of atherosclerotic plaques evolution: an 18F-NaF PET/CT study
- ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Francesco Fiz, Arnoldo Piccardo, Silvia Morbelli, Gianluca Bottoni, Michele Piana, Manlio Cabria, Marcello Bagnasco, Gianmario Sambuceti
Innovative atherosclerosis imaging using 18F-NaF PET/CT: Its clinical potential
- Editorial
Toshiro Kitagawa, Yukiko Nakano
Effect of temporal sampling protocols on myocardial blood flow measurements using Rubidium-82 PET
- Open Access
- ORIGINAL ARTICLE
S. S. Koenders, J. D. van Dijk, P. L. Jager, M. Mouden, A. G. Tegelaar, C. H. Slump, J. A. van Dalen
Influence of patient motion on quantitative accuracy in cardiac 15O-water positron emission tomography
- Open Access
- ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Jonny Nordström, Hendrik J. Harms, Tanja Kero, Jens Sörensen, Mark Lubberink
Artificial intelligence for disease diagnosis and risk prediction in nuclear cardiology
- Review Article
Robert J. H. Miller, Cathleen Huang, Joanna X. Liang, Piotr J. Slomka
Definition and epidemiology of coronary microvascular disease
- Open Access
- Review Article
Conor Bradley, Colin Berry
Healthcare resource utilization among patients receiving non-invasive testing for coronary artery disease in an outpatient setting: A cohort study reflecting daily practice trends
- ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Karthikeyan Ananthasubramaniam, Therese M. Kitt, Akansha Saxena, Qi Feng, David Nimke, James R. Spalding, Yanqing Xu
Evaluating the use of pharmacological stress agents during single-photon emission computed tomography myocardial perfusion imaging tests after inadequate exercise stress test
- Open Access
- ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Hongbo Yang, Elizabeth Faust, Emily Gao, Sakshi Sethi, Therese M. Kitt, Rita M. Kristy, James R. Spalding, Yanqing Xu
Pharmacological stress myocardial perfusion imaging after an inadequate exercise stress test
- Editorial
Parija Sharedalal, Perry Gerard, Diwakar Jain
The prognostic value of 123I-mIBG SPECT cardiac imaging in heart failure patients: a systematic review
- Open Access
- Review Article
Mariano Pontico, Gabriele Brunotti, Miriam Conte, Ferdinando Corica, Laura Cosma, Cristina De Angelis, Maria Silvia De Feo, Julia Lazri, Antonio Matto, Melissa Montebello, Arianna Di Rocco, Viviana Frantellizzi, Alessio Farcomeni, Giuseppe De Vincentis
Significance of 123I-mIBG SPECT cardiac imaging in heart failure
- Editorial
Dhrubajyoti Bandyopadhyay, Perry Gerard, Diwakar Jain
Prevalence and clinical significance of incidental findings on CT attenuation correction for myocardial perfusion imaging
- ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Joseph C. Lee, Francis T Delaney
Extra-cardiac findings in the age of hybrid cardiac imaging: Incidental or essential?
- Editorial
Firas J. Al Badarin
13N-Ammonia myocardial blood flow quantitation in patient with aneurismal coronary artery disease
- Case Presentation Corner
Juan Carlos Plata-Corona, Isabel Carvajal-Juarez, Nilda Espinola-Zavaleta, Felix Damas-De los Santos, Belen Rivera-Bravo, Erick Alexanderson-Rosas
Impact of Gd-153 scanning line source attenuation correction on downstream invasive testing
- ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Aditi Singhvi, Stephanie Suacier, Isha Verma, Kevin Felpel, Andre Gabriel, Tarun Tandon, Zackary Tushak, Jeffrey Mather, Sean McMahon, W. Lane Duvall
Cardiac microcalcification burden: Global assessment in high cardiovascular risk subjects with Na[18F]F PET-CT
- Original Article
João Borges-Rosa, Manuel Oliveira-Santos, Rodolfo Silva, Nuno Pereira da Silva, Antero Abrunhosa, Miguel Castelo-Branco, Lino Gonçalves, Maria João Ferreira
The effect of Vitamin-K1 and Colchicine on Vascular Calcification Activity in subjects with Diabetes Mellitus (ViKCoVaC): A double-blind 2x2 factorial randomized controlled trial
- Original Article
Jamie W. Bellinge, Roslyn J Francis, Sing Ching Lee, Alistair Vickery, William Macdonald, Seng Khee Gan, Gerard T. Chew, Michael Phillips, Joshua R. Lewis, Gerald F. Watts, Carl J. Schultz
Arterial 18F-NaF-uptake as a marker for vascular calcification activity. Can a little salt cut the sweet: a golden bullet to evaluate vascular mineralization?
- Editorial
Yannick Kaiser, Hein J. Verberne
3D fusion between fluoroscopy angiograms and SPECT myocardial perfusion images to guide percutaneous coronary intervention
- Original Article
Haipeng Tang, Robert R. Bober, Chen Zhao, Chaoyang Zhang, Huiqing Zhu, Zhuo He, Zhihui Xu, Weihua Zhou
Clinical impact of quantitative [15O] H2O PET/CT myocardial perfusion imaging on decision-making regarding invasive management of coronary artery disease
- Original Article
Chetsadaporn Promteangtrong, Attapon Jantarato, Anchisa Kunawudhi, Peerapon Kiatkittikul, Dheeratama Siripongsatian, Natphimol Boonkawin, Chanisa Chotipanich
Stress myocardial blood flow and revascularization in chronic coronary artery disease
- Editorial
Teemu Maaniitty, Juhani Knuuti, Antti Saraste
Predictive value of incidental right ventricular abnormalities identified on SPECT for mortality and pulmonary hypertension
- Original Article
Arun Jose, Christine Zhou, Rachel Baker, Jackson Walker, Nicholas Kurek, Robert E. O’Donnell, Jean M. Elwing, Myron Gerson
The abnormal right ventricle: Relevant on low risk SPECT perfusion images?
- Editorial
Richard C. Brunken
Cardiac amyloidosis characterization by kinetic model fitting on [18F]florbetaben PET images
- Original Article
M. F. Santarelli, D. Genovesi, M. Scipioni, V. Positano, B. Favilli, A. Giorgetti, G. Vergaro, L. Landini, M. Emdin, P. Marzullo
Reduced acquisition time for thallium myocardial perfusion imaging with large field cadmium-zinc-telluride SPECT/CT cameras: An equivalence study
- Original Article
P. B. Bonnefoy, L. Janvier, C. Arede, C. Drouet, D. Harami, S. Marque, R. Ahond-Vionnet
Evaluation of stress myocardial blood flow patterns in patients with apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- Brief Report
Raffaella Calabretta, Aurora Kokomani, Carlo Fumagalli, Iacopo Olivotto, Paolo G. Camici, Marcus Hacker, Roberto Sciagrà
Transmural perfusion: A new direction for myocardial blood flow
- Editorial
Dominik C. Benz, Philipp A. Kaufmann, Sharmila Dorbala
Prediction of 2-year major adverse cardiac events from myocardial perfusion scintigraphy and clinical risk factors
- Original Article
William D. Leslie, Mark Bryanton, Andrew Goertzen, Piotr Slomka
Assessment of a digital and an analog PET/CT system for accurate myocardial perfusion imaging with a flow phantom
- Open Access
- Original Article
Reetta Siekkinen, Anna K. Kirjavainen, Kalle Koskensalo, Nadia A. S. Smith, Andrew Fenwick, Virva Saunavaara, Tuula Tolvanen, Hidehiro Iida, Antti Saraste, Mika Teräs, Jarmo Teuho
Visual patterns of breast attenuation artifacts in women and men with an upright and supine cadmiun-zinc-telluride camera
- Original Article
Fahad Waqar, Muhammad W. Athar, Alok K. Dwivedi, Saad Ahmad, Saagar Sanghvi, Elonia Scott, Naseer Khan, Myron C. Gerson
Intravenous insulin injection supplemented with subsequent milk consumption is a safer formulation for cardiac viability 18F-FDG imaging
- Original Article
Yang Chun Chen, Mei Juan Pan, Qing Qing Wang, Yue Hui Wang, Hui Lin Zhuo, Ruo Zhu Dai
‘Do No Harm’: optimizing protocol for FDG PET cardiac viability assessment
- Editorial
Padma P. Manapragada, Pradeep G. Bhambhvani
Transthyretin Cardiac Amyloidosis Scintigraphy Using Planar D-SPECT on Dedicated Cardiac CZT Camera
- Original Article
Sagi Tshori, Shay Livschitz, Igor Volodarsky, Sorel Goland, Sara Shimoni, Jacob Fabrikant, Jacob George
Aortic wall segmentation in 18F-sodium fluoride PET/CT scans: Head-to-head comparison of artificial intelligence-based versus manual segmentation
- Original Article
Reza Piri, Lars Edenbrandt, Måns Larsson, Olof Enqvist, Amalie Horstmann Nøddeskou-Fink, Oke Gerke, Poul Flemming Høilund-Carlsen
Automated artificial intelligence quantification of aortic atherosclerotic calcifications by 18F-sodium fluoride PET/CT
- Editorial
Arnold C. T. Ng, Alexander R. van Rosendael, Jeroen J. Bax
Update on guidance and best practices for nuclear cardiology laboratories during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic: Emphasis on transition to chronic endemic state. An information statement from ASNC, IAEA, and SNMMI
- COVID-19
- INFORMATION STATEMENT
Randall C. Thompson, Lawrence M. Phillips, Vasken Dilsizian, Diana Paez Gutierrez, Andrew J. Einstein, Suzanne F. Crews, Hicham Skali, Felix Keng Yung Jih, Maurizio Dondi, Alessia Gimelli, Timothy M. Bateman, Mouaz H. Al-Mallah, Munir Ghesani, Sharmila Dorbala, Dennis A. Calnon
Reducing the effect of proton pump inhibitors augmenting gastrointestinal sestamibi uptake
- Letter to the Editor
Joseph C. Lee, David S. Rose
Comparable image interpretation of 1- and 3-hour technetium-99m HDP scintigraphy for transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis
- Letter to the Editor
Saurabh Malhotra, Vasvi Singh, Stamatoula Pilati, Donald Trepashko
Serial Tc-99m MDP scintigraphy demonstrating increasing cardiac uptake over time in a patient with light-chain cardiac amyloidosis
- Images that Teach
Hua Lin, Xinyu Zhang, Andrew J. Einstein, Gongshun Tang
The diagnostic value of FDG PET/CT in Takayasu arteritis
- IMAGES THAT TEACH
Yuhua Yang, Yiling Wang, Juyi Lin, Lisha Liu, Shengcai Huang
Aneurysmal formation from silent myocardial infarction mimics increased 18F-FDG uptake pattern
- IMAGES THAT TEACH
Yumiko Kanzaki, Tomohiko Watanabe, Koichi Sohmiya, Masaaki Hoshiga
Multimodal imaging in hepatocellular carcinoma with inferior vena cava and right atrial tumor thrombus
- IMAGES THAT TEACH
Yuhua Yang, Lisha Liu, Juyi Lin, Shengcai Huang
Gating failure can result in underestimation of cardiac function in myocardial perfusion scintigraphy
- Open Access
- IMAGES THAT TEACH
Alberto Villagran Asiares, Igor Yakushev, Stephan G. Nekolla
Go with the flow: Abnormal extra-cardiac Rb-82 flow as a diagnostic clue for subclavian vein stenosis
- IMAGES THAT TEACH
Akanksha N. Thakkar, Talal S. Alnabelsi, Mouaz H. Al-Mallah
Apical defect following Tendyne valve placement
- IMAGES THAT TEACH
Travis Howard, Sameer Prasada, Paul Cremer, Wael Jaber, Serge Harb
18F-FDG PET/CT detected mediastinal small-cell neuroendocrine carcinoma with all cardiac cavities metastases
- IMAGES THAT TEACH
Yuhua Yang, Juyi Lin, Lisha Liu, Shengcai Huang
Tc-99m HMDP bone scintigraphy for cardiac amyloidosis diagnosis: A false positive case
- IMAGES THAT TEACH
Guillaume Lades, Hélène Carpenet, Unvoy Benoit, Victor Aboyans, Jacques Monteil